Room in Brooklyn – Anne Carson

Edward Hopper - Room in Brooklyn (Stanza a Brooklyn), 1932, olio su tela, 85 x 72,5 cm, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

Room in Brooklyn – Anne Carson 

This
slow
day
moves
Along the room
I
hear
its
axles
go
A gradual dazzle
upon
the
ceiling
Gives me that
racy
bluishyellow
feeling
As hours
blow
the
wide
way
Down my afternoon.

Let us not say time past was long, for we shall not find it.
It is no more. But let us say
time present was long,
because when it was present it was long. (Augustine, Confessions XI)